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Year: 2019

  • October 12, 2019October 14, 2019
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Walking the Doodle Trail, Pickens, SC

  • Haiku

For the second time this week, my husband and I drove to the nearby town of Pickens, SC, to take a walk on the Doodle Trail. It used to be a railroad route but has been made into a lovely paved trail for bike riding […]

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  • October 8, 2019March 19, 2020
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Exhausted: Plumbing Woes, Sickness and More

  • Inspirational

Welcome back to #TellAMemoryTuesday. Today I continue the story of our first week in our house in Plainfield, New Jersey. Part 1 can be found HERE. Part 2 can be found HERE. Throughout that time, God provided dear friends who showed great love and care […]

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  • October 2, 2019October 8, 2019
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Forest & Whisper: A Haiku

  • Haiku

It has been awhile since I participated with the Monday weekly haiku challenge at #RonovanWrites. My last time linking up was in the post Rainbow: Quiet Beauty with a Promise. This week I couldn’t resist, because I love the prompt words,  forest & whisper.   […]

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  • October 2, 2019April 2, 2022
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Faithfulness: God’s Provision and Care

  • Inspirational

As promised, here is the first incident I remember of that first crazy week in Plainfield, NJ, when God showed His faithfulness in hard times.

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  • October 1, 2019February 26, 2022
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Fixer-Upper House: A Scary, Doozy Week of Surprises

  • Memoir

Welcome again to #TellAMemoryTuesday! I had to step back for a couple of weeks, but I’m now ready to begin sharing about our time in Plainfield, New Jersey. In the fall of 1981, our little family of four moved into a fixer-upper of a house.  […]

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  • September 28, 2019September 29, 2019
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Success: How Do You Define It?

  • Five Minute Friday

Success is the prompt word this week for Five Minute Friday. Everyone has an idea of what it means to be successful. Maybe for some it’s making lots of money. For others it might be having all family members get along with each other.   […]

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  • September 26, 2019September 29, 2019
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Hope: A Simple Woman’s Daybook, September

  • A Simple Woman's Daybook

September has been quite a busy month with some unexpected happenings.  That’s why I haven’t posted in awhile. But through all we’ve experience there is always hope, because we have a God of hope. Today, I’ll be linking up with Peggy at The Simple Woman’s […]

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  • September 10, 2019September 9, 2019
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Poodle Skirt: When Daddy Sewed

  • Memoir

This week for #TellAMemoryTuesday, I’m taking a break from the chronological order. Next week we’ll be back on track with our move to Plainfield, New Jersey. Today we travel back to the time when I was a little girl in elementary school.   The year […]

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  • September 3, 2019February 26, 2022
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Beach Chaperones: Scary Thoughts and a Birthday

  • Inspirational

This week for Tell a Memory Tuesday, I share about a beach trip and Sara’s scary thoughts. Steve seemed to be fitting in well as a teacher at Covenant Christian School. Towards the end of the school year we were asked to be the chaperones […]

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  • September 1, 2019September 2, 2019
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Back: Travel but Always Come Home

  • Five Minute Friday

Back is the prompt word for Five Minute Friday. It reminds me of a song called I’m Back, by Roger Whitaker, from his television special  in 1983. He had returned to Kenya, the place of his birth to share a musical safari.  Along with footage […]

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